Hmmm. My legs keep getting more painful.

[Deja Q]

It started in July after I stopped walking due to the heat wave (surgery recouperation kept me from using my exerciser so I couldn't do diddley).

It was shortly into this time when the upper leg and below-knee pain started.

Since August late I've been walking around more again; even climbing stairs at work - at least 4 flights once per day.

Pain is getting worse and sometimes I am buckling when trying to stand for a while. Hell, during my heavy cleanup I'd taken several trips and getting good exercise. One would think I'd have improvement by now.

Still, given a choice I'd rather have my legs fail than my arms. (not for that dirty gross reason; I can still work on a computer and be able to live...)

I won't go to the G.P. as he'll pin it on anxiety, what else is new? The psych will push it back to the G.P., as she did for a reaction to 'medication' (that's also documented in the internet.)

So I am waiting for my legs to die. I don't think there's anything I can do.

:shrug:

(and today I found it difficult to walk down a small flight of stairs by the end of the day; particularly in my knees.)

[SoCalDem]

1. Go to the DR.. Could be many things..none good

embolism, phlebitis, pinched nerve..and others..

[Deja Q]

4. Might be a pinched nerve... but I can't get the time off for surgery.

Of course, because I came back from one, my FMLA is gone and they won't let me take more time off w/out pay. If another surgery is required, I must choose between joblessness or paralysis. Cool. Same difference regarding joblessness...

[graywarrior]

2. What's your diagnosis? I don't mean to pry.

[Deja Q]

3. .

Asperger's; being treated with Strattera. Have been since late May. While I did a lot more walking than usual, I also know the strattera had been a prime influence in my loss of weight.

I was recently given zoloft for anxiety/PTSD. It conflicted with the strattera big-time. I know this because, almost a year ago, I was on zoloft exclusively. It worked but made me a bit tired. In conjunction with the zoloft, I had RAPID heartbeat (100 sitting, 136 when walking merely 300 feet), nearly constant sweating, considerable irritability/anger, big-ass headache, and symptoms that were mistaken for VD (despite the fact there are MANY documented cases of stattera being the culprit for some very similar issues...) I was on zoloft for a week and every time I called they told me I had to stay on it for a month before it takes effect for my symptoms. (no frigging way. The damn stuff was KILLING me. Literally.)

Just because I'm taking a drug prescribed by the "mental health" industry doesn't mean I'm completely crackers or incompetent. That's why we have politicians... the stigma is, once you're pegged with something (true or not, and the aspoerger's is TRUE) they will generally not listen to you.

If I had died, I wonder what they would have used to shrug me off with...

[graywarrior]

5. I remember that now. We had this discussion before.

Why would your legs bother you, tho?

[Deja Q]

6. Atrophy? Maybe a pinched nerve... but then, why both and not just one?

That'd be one unhappy nerve and I have no problems with other functions in that general vicinity, I gather it's all tied in...

[graywarrior]

7. Ahhh. Sorry you are hurting.

[Kenroy]

8. It could well be

a side-effect of the drugs. You should definitely discuss it with an MD.